make fails in wsl

[jibnew]

I am on wsl under Windows 22631.4751, it is Ubuntu-24.04, uname -a says

6.6.36.6-microsoft-standard-WSL2+ #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC

Following build instructions, make fails with

[ 44%] Building CXX object src/external/downloads/libE57Format-2.3.0/CMakeFiles/E57Format.dir/src/BlobNodeImpl.cpp.o
In file included from /home/me/install/meshlab/src/external/downloads/libE57Format-2.3.0/src/Common.h:40,
                 from /home/me/install/meshlab/src/external/downloads/libE57Format-2.3.0/src/NodeImpl.h:30,
                 from /home/me/install/meshlab/src/external/downloads/libE57Format-2.3.0/src/BlobNodeImpl.h:29,
                 from /home/me/install/meshlab/src/external/downloads/libE57Format-2.3.0/src/BlobNodeImpl.cpp:28:
/home/me/install/meshlab/src/external/downloads/libE57Format-2.3.0/include/E57Format.h:42:15: error: ‘int16_t’ has not been declared in ‘std’
   42 |    using std::int16_t;
      |               ^~~~~~~
/home/me/install/meshlab/src/external/downloads/libE57Format-2.3.0/include/E57Format.h:43:15: error: ‘int32_t’ has not been declared in ‘std’
   43 |    using std::int32_t;
      |               ^~~~~~~
/home/me/install/meshlab/src/external/downloads/libE57Format-2.3.0/include/E57Format.h:44:15: error: ‘int64_t’ has not been declared in ‘std’
   44 |    using std::int64_t;
      |               ^~~~~~~
/home/me/install/meshlab/src/external/downloads/libE57Format-2.3.0/include/E57Format.h:45:15: error: ‘int8_t’ has not been declared in ‘std’
   45 |    using std::int8_t;
      |               ^~~~~~
/home/me/install/meshlab/src/external/downloads/libE57Format-2.3.0/include/E57Format.h:46:15: error: ‘uint16_t’ has not been declared in ‘std’
   46 |    using std::uint16_t;
      |               ^~~~~~~~
/home/me/install/meshlab/src/external/downloads/libE57Format-2.3.0/include/E57Format.h:47:15: error: ‘uint32_t’ has not been declared in ‘std’
   47 |    using std::uint32_t;
      |               ^~~~~~~~
/home/me/install/meshlab/src/external/downloads/libE57Format-2.3.0/include/E57Format.h:48:15: error: ‘uint64_t’ has not been declared in ‘std’
   48 |    using std::uint64_t;
      |               ^~~~~~~~
/home/me/install/meshlab/src/external/downloads/libE57Format-2.3.0/include/E57Format.h:49:15: error: ‘uint8_t’ has not been declared in ‘std’
   49 |    using std::uint8_t;
      |               ^~~~~~~
make[2]: *** [src/external/downloads/libE57Format-2.3.0/CMakeFiles/E57Format.dir/build.make:97: src/external/downloads/libE57Format-2.3.0/CMakeFiles/E57Format.dir/src/BlobNodeImpl.cpp.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:5137: src/external/downloads/libE57Format-2.3.0/CMakeFiles/E57Format.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [Makefile:156: all] Error 2

[alemuntoni]

You can use either the devel branch, or downgrade the gcc version to 11. with gcc 13 right now the main branch does not build due to (at least) a missing update of libE57.